Sun vs Oracle

Posted Jan 16, 2008 15:01 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: Sun to buy MySQL AB

There were stories here about Oracle buying the creators of the InnoDB and BerkeleyDB database
engines, which are used by MySQL. It seemed to me that Oracle would by MySQL "from the
bottom", now Sun bought it outright. Was it a defense against an Oracle takeover?